Carnegie Library

This is a public library, dating from 1907, as indicated by a stone inscription to the right of the centre. The building has been altered since its original construction. It is built of red brick in an English garden wall bond, with buff terracotta dressings and a slate roof. The library occupies a prominent, end-of-island site. Its plan is based on a central nave with north and south aisles parallel to the streets, and rectangular wings attached to the rear corners. The architectural style is Edwardian Baroque.

The east front is symmetrical, composed of a 1:3:1 bay arrangement, with a slightly projecting, pedimented centre. Features include a chamfered plinth, terracotta facing to both floors of the centre, incorporating panelled pilasters, an egg-and-dart frieze, parapets to the outer bays, and a pedimented gable to the centre. The gable features prominent coping and a wooden cupola with a finial. The centre section has Tuscan columns arranged distyle in antis at ground floor, framing a doorway with a segmental head and large, segmental-headed windows, all with shouldered and keyed architraves. Above the doorway is a panel containing a foliated cartouche, flanked by panels with raised lettering reading "CARNEGIE LIBRARY." Ionic pilasters, also distyle in antis, frame a tall, segmental-headed, 6-light double-transomed window at the first floor, which breaks into the gable, flanked by cross-windows. An oculus is set within the gable, elaborately enriched with an architrave. The outer bays, appearing as stair turrets, have small, 2-light windows with open pediments at ground floor, and oculi with enriched surrounds at first floor. The three-bay north and south aisles have pilasters and wide segmental-headed windows. The nave section features terracotta pilasters and an egg-and-dart cornice, with 3-light mullioned windows.

The rear wings, of two lower storeys with three windows each, are symmetrical. Each has a canted bay window at ground floor, flanked by 3-light windows, and a large, segmental-headed 6-light window at the first floor, set under an open pediment and flanked by transomed 6-light windows. The interior of the building has not been inspected. The library forms a striking visual feature of the street, facing towards the town centre.